At San Diego Mesa College, we found that too many of our faculty were unaware of the wide variety of resources and services we provide, or how to integrate them into their programs. To remedy this, familiarize them with the LRC building, and provide hands-on experience with some of the materials we have, I presented a two-hour staff development workshop on “The LRC-Making It Work for You” in Fall 1999. The process by which we integrated a PowerPoint presentation, a display of paper resources (books, periodicals, indexes), self-testing, lecture, demonstration, and hands-on learning in a manner designed to hold the faculty members' interest resulted in such a positive response that I've conducted the workshop regularly ever since.
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